[PDF] Alfonso X Of Castile Patron Of Literature And Learning eBook

Author : Evelyn Stefanos Procter
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Alfonso X (1252-1284) was one of the outstanding royal patrons of the 13th century. The work done at his court included translations from the Arabic of treatises on astronomy, astrology, and magic and works of cooperative scholarship which appear to have been part of a scheme to provide standard reference works. Procter's five essays give an overview of Alfonso's role as a patron of learning.

Author : Kirstin Kennedy
Publisher : Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Authors and patrons
ISBN : 9789462988972

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This book analyses text, image and manuscript layout to deepen our understanding of the different ways in which Alfonso is presented as a learned king in the manuscripts he commissioned, and reassesses the number of manuscripts copied for him.

Author : Shelby Thacker
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0813158885

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Alfonso X (1221--1284) reigned as king of Castile and León from 1252 until his death. Known to history as El Sabio, the Wise, or the Learned, his appreciation for science and the arts led him to sponsor a number of books on the history of Spain since its Roman settlement. Among them were the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a collection of over four hundred poems exalting his favorite patron saint, Mary, and chronicles of all the kings of Castile and León, Navarre, Aragón, and Portugal. Alfonso X died before his own life could be written. His was a reign fraught with political intrigue and double crosses, almost constant war and equally constant diplomacy, royal largesse and economic instability -- all of which led to open revolt and efforts by Alfonso's own son to depose the king. It would be another sixty-some years before King Alfonso XI would commission Fernán Sánchez de Valladolid to write Cronica de Alfonso X to memorialize his great-grandfather. As Alfonso XI's trusted counselor, ambassador, diplomat, and legist, Fernán was an understandable choice, but in the centuries since, his convoluted prose has proven extremely difficult extremely difficult for scholars. Chronicle of Alfonso X is the first and only translation of the king's history. The original "clumsy Castilian" of Fernán Sánchez has now been transformed into literate and engaging English.

Author : H. Salvador Mart Nez
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9004181474

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A truly groundbreaking book, presenting a portrait of Alfonso X, monarch and medieval intellectual "par excellence," and the extraordinary cultural history of Spain at that time.

Author : H. Salvador Martínez
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9004193421

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A truly groundbreaking book, presenting a portrait of Alfonso X, monarch and medieval intellectual par excellence, and the extraordinary cultural history of Spain at that time.